We are holding a Volunteer Orientation and Silkscreening Social on Wednesday, November 30th from 7-9pm. It will be located in Rm. 217 of the Memorial Centre, 303 York Street. Everyone is welcome to attend, and new volunteers or people interested in volunteering are especially encouraged to come learn about our many projects and how you can get involved. You will also have the chance to silkscreen clothing items with our Loving Spoonful logo! Bring along a t-shirt, sweatshirt and/or cloth shopping bag to be printed. We will also have some aprons on hand for people to print and take home with them. This will be a fun night to get to know the Loving Spoonful team and learn a new skill!

The Acorn Garden is grown for the sole purpose of donating its harvest to Grow a Row, and we are excited to announce that this year we have already collected 6500 lbs of fresh produce, blowing away our original goal of 5000 lbs!

We have a bunch of fun activities planned throughout the afternoon! We will be putting the garden plots to bed for the winter, as well as planting some garlic (which we harvested from our very own garden this year!) There will also be a craft table for the kids, so come out and enjoy the fun!

Don’t miss out on our other activities and workshops we have planned!
3pm: Composting Workshop
4pm: A backyard Hen demonstration
5pm: Time to share a meal!

All are welcome to join us and bring a dish to share, dishes to eat on/with, and your favourite gardening gloves, tools and accesories We hope you can join us in celebrating a phenomenal season here at the garden!

Hope to see you all there!!

This fall, Loving Spoonful is preparing fresh, delicious, ready to bake or freeze apple pies made from Ontario apples!  Buy one for your home, or donate one that Loving Spoonful can distribute to local emergency meal programs!  Pies will be prepared and are available for pick-up on Sat. Oct 2 and Sun. Oct. 3 at Tara Natural Foods (81 Princess St) and St Vincent de Paul Society (85A Stephen St).

Pies cost $7.00 each, or $20.00 for three pies. Click here to download the order form. Please bring your completed form and payment to Tara Natural Foods.  Every pie purchased will help support Loving Spoonful as it strives to enhance access to healthy food for all in Kingston.

Love to bake and want to contribute to your community?  Volunteer to bake on either Oct. 2 or 3!  Contact sayyida@lovingspoonful.org.

8PM  at 99 York St

We will be hosting a volunteer meeting for new volunteers to learn about how to get involved in Loving Spoonful and to find out what projects we have on the go. We will be recruiting folks to join the Grow a Row committee and Special Events/Fundraising Committee.  We hope to see you there!

We want to start planning the 2010 Grow a Row campaign and are looking for many people to join us! The GROW A ROW COMMITTEE will work with Susan to coordinate all aspects of the Grow a Row Campaign including but not limited to: producing promotional materials to circulate in the community, arranging public displays in different locations in town, outreaching to community organizations and groups to sign up to “grow a row” in their gardens, contacting media for publicity, working out logistics of drop off points, collecting produce throughout the summer and fall, organizing an end of season celebration and thank you to all individuals and organizations who contributed to the 2010 campaign.

For more information about Grow a Row in Canada please visit: http://www.growarow.org/

If you can’t make the meeting though would like to get involved, please contact us!

Hello to new and established volunteers!

Come to a Loving Spoonful Volunteer Planning and Orientation Meeting; Find out what’s going on at Loving Spoonful and how you can help. We will be talking about volunteer opportunities including:

• Scheduled Food Pick up and Distribution
• Farmers Market
• Grow a Row
• Gardening at the ACORN Garden
• Upcoming special events
• and more!

We welcome your ideas and your involvement.

See you there!